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Weikart Family Foundation at a glance

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Weikart Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$92k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$391kYouth Development$197kEducation$175kHuman Services$35kScience & Tech$30kCommunity Improvement$20kEnvironment$18kRecreation & Sports$3k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ELI WHITNEY MUSEUM$25,000
INSIDE OUT LITERARY ART$15,000
ADRIAN ARTS CENTER$15,000
ISLESFORD BOAT WORKS$15,000
ROCKING THE BOAT$10,000
APPALACHIAN LIBRARY INITIATIVE$6,600
READ TO A CHILD$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GIRLS WHO CODE: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MT
MI
NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
DE
TN
NC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$531k · 14 repeat orgs$337k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
15

Total granted

$531k
$282k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+22%

Still filing today

29%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • WH
    WORKSHOP HOUSTON
    4× · 2017–2023 · $82k · revenue +28%
  • MV
    MOUNTAIN VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO
    2× · 2017–2019 · $25k · revenue +2%
  • AP
    AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2020 · $18k · revenue +214%

Funded once

  • GA
    GLOBAL ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY SCIENCE WORKSHOPSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue ×17 · 32% of their budget
  • YP
    YOUNG PEOPLES THEATER
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +22%
  • PA
    PARTNERSHIP APPALACHIAN GIRLS ED
    one grant, 2024 · $30k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Youthworks

American youthworks (ayw) annually provides 400+ young adults with training and resources to build careers and strengthen their communities through education, paid career training, and national service. ayw programs prepare participants…

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2
Young Playwrights Theater

Young Playwrights Theater (YPT) is committed to using theater & writing to foster dialogue, arts education, literacy & conflict resolution in communities.

Arts & Culture
3
Wonderworks

Wonderworks educates students to become better-qualified college applicants and better equipped to succeed in undergraduate studies by exploring challenging subject matter and techniques in a college setting.

Education
4
Young Actors Theatre Inc

The mission of React is to create original theatre with youth that reacts to social issues of the world. The vision of React is to build a more empathetic and empowered world through theatre. React works with hundreds of students from…

Recreation & Sports
5
Youth Performance Company

Youth artistic and leadership development and education

Arts & Culture
6
Institute for Applied Tinkering

Institute for Applied Tinkering IAT develops, practices and shares educational methods that challenge and support all children to engage deeply in their learning via real interests and real tools.

Youth Development
7
Youth in Arts

Youth in Arts builds visual and performing arts skills through innovative and in-depth programs that foster confidence, compassion and resilience in students of all abilities. We develop capacity among educators and teaching artists,…

Arts & Culture
8
Young Audiences of Indiana Inc

Arts for learning indiana brings the arts to your school community to champion creative learning, innovate education, and transform lives.

Arts & Culture
9
Young Audiences of New Jersey Inc

Young Auidiences (YA) mission is to inspire young peope and expand their learning through the arts. Arts education is who we are and what we do. The work of the board, staff, and teaching artists is guided by a vision of a future in which…

Arts & Culture
10
Young Audiences of Western New York Inc D/B/a Arts for Learning Wny

To inspire, expand learning, and strengthen our community through engagement with the arts.

Arts & Culture
11
Writers in the Schools

The mission of Writers in the Schools (WITS) is to connect children and youth with professional writers and spoken word artists to unlock the joy and power of storytelling and creative expression.

Education
12
Young Musicians & Artists Inc

Yma's mission is to provide young people with a unique personal experience in the visual and performing arts, where they share creative interests in a positive environment that builds confidence, enhances self-esteem and reinforces a sense…

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mountain View Elementary School Pto. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HILLSDALE ACADEMY: $75,000 · OtherHILLSDALE ACADEMYINSIDE OUT LITERARY ART: $60,000 · OtherINSIDE OUT LITERARY ARTPURE EXISTENCE DANCE CO: $54,150 · OtherPURE EXISTENCE DANCE COKYNDER & JENTLER FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · OtherKYNDER & JENTLER FOUNDATION INCSEQUOIA MIDDLE SCHOOL MUSIC DEPT: $34,000 · OtherSEQUOIA MIDDLE SCHOOL MUSIC DEPTCANYON SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL: $33,500 · OtherCANYON SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOLGLOBAL ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY SCIENCE WORKSHOPS: $30,000 · OtherADRIAN ARTS CENTER: $30,000 · OtherPARTNERSHIP APPALACHIAN GIRLS ED: $30,000 · OtherLORAIN COUNTY REGION BOYS & GIRLS: $25,000 · OtherADRIAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $25,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LORAIN CO: $25,000 · OtherYOUNG AUDIENCES ART FOR LEARNING: $20,000 · OtherYOUNG AUDIENCES ARTS FOR LEARNING: $20,000 · OtherMOUNTAIN PROJECTS INC: $20,000 · Other+4 more: $52,600 · Other+4 moreWORKSHOP HOUSTON: $82,000 · Youth DevelopmentWORKSHOP HOUS…ISLESFORD BOATWORKS: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentISLESFORD BOA…UKULELE KIDS CLUB INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG PEOPLES THEATER: $30,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG PEOPL…ELI WHITNEY MUSEUM INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureELI WHITNEY…JODIE RANDOLPH DANCE: $19,850 · Arts & CultureJODIE RANDO…APPALACHIAN LITERACY INITIATIVE: $16,600 · Arts & CultureAPPALACHIAN…MOUNTAIN VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO: $25,400 · EducationYOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON: $14,000 · EducationROCKING THE BOAT INC: $10,000 · EducationREAD TO A CHILD INC: $5,000 · EducationGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION: $17,500 · EnvironmentCROSSROADS FOR YOUTH: $3,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$574,250Youth Development$102,000Arts & Culture$91,450Education$54,400Human Services$25,000Environment$17,500Recreation & Sports$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWORKSHOP HOUSTON: $82,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetGLOBAL ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY SCIENCE WORKSHOPS: $30,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetYOUNG PEOPLES THEATER: $30,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetELI WHITNEY MUSEUM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN PROJECTS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJODIE RANDOLPH DANCE: $19,850 over 1y, 35% of budgetAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAPPALACHIAN LITERACY INITIATIVE: $16,600 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetREAD TO A CHILD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCROSSROADS FOR YOUTH: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds WORKSHOP HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY SCIENCE WORKSHOPS ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG PEOPLES THEATER ↗
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO ↗
  • Who funds ELI WHITNEY MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS WHO CODE INC ↗
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN PROJECTS INC ↗
  • Who funds JODIE RANDOLPH DANCE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds APPALACHIAN LITERACY INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG DANCERS INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds ISLESFORD BOATWORKS ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds ROCKING THE BOAT INC ↗
  • Who funds READ TO A CHILD INC ↗
  • Who funds UKULELE KIDS CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS FOR YOUTH ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Weikart Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Weikart Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Eli Whitney Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home